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The Ophthalmologist
We are in a very dark room.
He has the air of one not gone above
For years; his whisper shows
He is completely in command down here.
So I commend myself into his gentle fingers
That play around my head more intimately
Than most men’s should do, the trembling
At my ear, the pressure on my temples,
Making me turn profile from side to side,
The touch testing my neck.
He has many categories of sight, ranged
In little boxes, a long, a short, an astigmatism
In a prism of glass. His machinery
Flickers an instant before me, lenses
You’d love to turn in your hand
Like ovals of limestone, waxy as opal.
All the kingdoms he shows me of letters
From their different angles: bold,
Crabbed, melancholic. I peer through
The thicknesses, pitting myself guiltily
Against the deft fingers, the deferential mask.
Half an hour’s enough to pinpoint all my weaknesses;
How to correct blur, squint, failure to see things
As they really are. I’ve grown to like
The shadowiness with which we work,
How outlines turn to sculpture, the world
Dividing into lamplight and the dark.
When he throws wide the door, I cannot rise
Towards the greening surface;
Under the desks and curtains the eye-doctor
Offers the lure of many visions,
The honey of his systems underground.
HILARY DAVIES (1987)
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